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Fucker should have gotten his name
changed.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 10:51
AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Man executed
despite Brain Fingerprinting finding
Man executed protesting his innocence
Underwent
'brain fingerprinting'
MCALESTER, Oklahoma (Reuters) -- An Oklahoma
man who tried to prove his innocence
through a little-known procedure
called "brain fingerprinting" was executed by lethal
injection Tuesday for
the 1991 murder of a woman and her daughter.
Jimmy Ray Slaughter, 57,
insisted he was not guilty even as the mix of lethal chemicals
was
injected into his arms at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in
McAlester.
"I've been accused of murder and it's not true. It was a lie
from the beginning," he said
while strapped to a gurney in the Oklahoma
death chamber. "You people will know it's true
some day. May god have
mercy on your souls."
Slaughter sighed heavily as the chemicals flowed
into his body and his face lost all color.
He was pronounced dead in the
first execution this year in Oklahoma.
Slaughter was condemned for the
July 2, 1991, murders of his girlfriend Melody Wuertz,
29, and their
11-month-old daughter, Jessica, whom he killed in a fit of anger when
Wuertz filed a paternity suit against him, prosecutors
said.
Slaughter tried to get his conviction overturned by submitting to
a "brain fingerprinting"
test by Seattle-based neuroscientist Larry
Farwell. [Formerly based in FF�L B S]
In the procedure, which the
Harvard-educated Farwell says is accurate but has yet to gain
much legal
acceptance, the suspect is fitted with a headband-like sensor device, then
shown photographs and other evidence from the crime scene.
Seeing
something familiar is said to trigger brain waves of recognition, which the
sensor
detects and flashes on a computer screen.
Farwell told the
Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board in February that test results indicated
Slaughter had not committed the crime, but the board members refused to
grant him
clemency. His fate was sealed when U.S. Supreme Court rejected
his appeal Tuesday.
Slaughter's three daughters from an earlier
marriage witnessed the execution and wept as
they watched their father
die. He raised his head before the chemicals took hold and tried
to
comfort them, saying, "It's OK, it's OK, I love you."
Slaughter was the
76th person executed in Oklahoma since the state resumed capital
punishment in 1991, 15 years after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a
national death penalty
ban.
For his final meal, he requested fried
chicken, mashed potatoes, cole slaw, biscuits, apple
pie and cherry
limeade
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